We finish shooting on September 4th. There's likely to be a wrap partythat night. Which means I'd either have to take the red-eye to be in Floridaby the next morning...or get a 5 a.m. flight out, either way arriving a wreckfor the Saturday presentation.

Meantime, something else has come up.

I've been contacted (again) by Creation Entertainment, and there havebeen a number of phone calls between us. I've been very straightforward aboutmy concerns, the things that I've heard from fans, all the things that I'vestated here on this forum. They have gone out of their way to beaccommodating, and to make clear that they are aware that there have beenproblems in the past, but that they have been corrected.

So I'm going to give it a shot _ my suspicions intact _ and see how itworks out. If it does, terrific, everybody wins. If not...then at least itwas given a fair shot, and I have always tried to be fair.

Consequently, to those of you in the San Francisco area...I'll be doing aB5 presentation at the Creation Con over the weekend of September 5th and 6th.(A short hop up to San Francisco is a LOT more palatable than an excursioncross-country.) I'll be able to bring a lot of neat stuff with me to show atthe convention.

Now I have to let Magicon know. And my regrets to those who may havebeen anticipating the presentation there; I'd planned on just gritting myteeth and, on the last day of shooting, getting no sleep and just bulling myway through it...but I know I'm gonna be absolutely dead by then, and it'sjust too much to put what's left of my body through at that point.